Interesting!! three different status of the same building. As the time passes, even the mighty ones bow down :)

That is excellent!! I really like your selective colour work here.

I really like the effects of this partial desaturation. Nice work.

Wow, I totally remember this wall. Without even looking at the other shots, I remember you saying it was a day you wished you had brought along you zoom lens... That other shot was around the time I found your site. Nice!

I love this one: colour on one side, monochrome on the other. Loved its former incarnation too -great catches - both shots have people working but at very different tasks.

That's a lot of concrete and rebar to pull apart. Looks like a bunch of snakes.

Why? Is this one of Toronto's buildings that was improperly designed and built? I remember one on the edge of the Don Valley that sat for years awaiting removal after being built without permits and which had horrid faults.

The housing industry are a questionalble group when it comes to real quality. The word "Luxury" means nothing to quality in truth. Visual bells and whistles with the guts often missing.

L'oeuvre du temps et de l'homme combiné fait les plus belles oeuvres d'art. Et les meilleurs vins...

WOW -- what a forceful picture Sam!! Or, as some people would say "brutalism"!!
It has been there so long it has become like an old friend. Sad to see it go, but I'm sure we all look forward to having that gap in the PATH system reconnected with the 50 something story building going up in its place.

That's a very powerfull picture you took there. The site is being torn down but it looks as though a castastrophe occured. Is this street located in North York?

love pictures with spot of color occuping lesser parts of the image, because the rest seems like P&B

Wow, that concrete and rebar construction is sure a mess to take apart - what a useless pile of land fill.

Interesting series of documentary photos though.

Hello from Montréal,I just discovered your photoblog and it is very impressive, there are many quality shots. This one is a cool shot, love the colors.

Farewell, The Stump. I wont miss you.

Your use of colour in this photograph is what makes it so spectacular. Nice job!

I like how the chunks and rebar make it look like the building is crumbling and decaying, and the photo captured it in action.

The "stump" was the first few floors of the core and elevator shafts of an office buiding project abandoned when a real estate bubble burst in Toronto at the start of a recession in the early 90's.

Amazing how long it hung around before being torn down. Makes you wonder about how skyscrapers in general will be torn down in the future. How do you do that in a crowded urban space?

Nice shots.

Its a "building" downtown. The structure was supposed to be a real building but ended up being a stump when the developers decided to stop building the rest of it due to economic conditions. They are now tearing it down because a new office building will take its place.

Nice shot Sam. The fact that the right side of the picture is monochrome is absolutely fascinating. To be honest with you, as a man and being included in 30% colourblinds of them I have no confidence in distinguishing the colours. However I believe I can still see some colours on right side as well which is making it more interesting, 'cose first of all there isn't any segregation line between the coloured area and monochrome and then those coloured lines are outstandingly & professionally caught. God knows how you do this.

what a waste of money/space!
i love the look of desaturation on one side, and not on the other

sharp and clean. i also love the green, great shot sam!

Striking shot. I really like it. Cheers!

Really nice shot!
I like either colors and composition.

Very nice colouring and composition. That man is like a border between two worlds. I like this shot!

Huh...I work for Fidelity...strangely ominous isn't it? A bit of foreshadowing for the coming quarter? ;o)

u r a prodigy graphic designer, ;)